Season › 2025-26 › News The Rumour Mill Talk of Jack Grealish returning to Man City is hopefully premature Michael Kenrick | 18/10/2025 6comments | Jump to last Some comments from Pep Guardiola seem to have been construed as an indication that Jack Grealish could be recalled by Manchester City before he completes his season-long loan spell with Everton. Everton have an option to buy the former England international for £50M as part of the loan deal that was agreed in August. But the claim is being made that Everton could not afford to complete the deal, which seems to ignore the key financial contributions that The Friedkin Group are making to the club's coffers. Guardiola told the media: “The important thing is he is back. He is a massive influence in the Everton games. After what’s happened, maybe Manchester City want him back, but I don’t know. Many things are still going to happen. We’ll see. “The important thing is he is playing again, a lot of minutes. This is the standard. I’m happy, really, honestly, that he’s back in, trying his best.” Article continues below video content Grealish's contract with City runs through the end of June 2027. The player himself has indicated why he is so happy at the Hill Dickinson Stadium and would, seemingly, he happy to stay. “I’m happiest, as you know, when I’m playing and training every day,” Grealish began. “Obviously, people have a perception of me. But there’s nothing more that I love doing than playing football. Do you know what I mean, whether that’s on the training field, I just love like five hours, like just playing football.” Interviewed by his old Aston Villa boss Tim Sherwood for Sky Sports, Grealish was asked what that perception is. “I don’t know. People like to say ‘he likes to go out’, ‘he likes to party’…. “Yes, I want to be able to live my life as well and enjoy myself. Obviously, I think there’s a time and a place to do that in my career. Sometimes, I’ll be honest with you, I probably haven’t picked the right times, you know? I mean, sometimes at the city, for example, I didn’t help myself at times, I’ll openly say that. But then I don’t think it was all down to that [why I have not been at my best there].” Reader Comments (6) Note: the following content is not moderated or vetted by the site owners at the time of submission. Comments are the responsibility of the poster. Disclaimer () Peter Moore 1 Posted 18/10/2025 at 17:29:28 Stay where you are tearing it up Jack.Us Toffees are smashing the £6.50 Toffee Doughnuts in, to swell the coffers for your purchase in the summer!Jack is Royal Blue... Stay, let's win a trophy or two...UTFT. Pat Kelly 2 Posted 19/10/2025 at 10:53:33 Whether Grealish stays or not, we're not winning any trophies with Beto and Barry. Until that changes, bottom half is where we belong. Colin Glassar 3 Posted 19/10/2025 at 20:42:10 Never a truer word said, Pat. 10-12th max with those two up front. Michael Kenrick 4 Posted 20/10/2025 at 13:14:23 The Daily Mail saying, with Grealish now 30 years old, his transfer value is expected to depreciate over the course of the season, dropping below the £50M mark by the time the summer window opens.Yea well, maybe... maybe not. If he does really well for us, Pep may want him back. Or he may not. Let's face it, anything could happen. Too early to speculate. Let the lad play. Trevor Powell 5 Posted 06/11/2025 at 11:20:23 To be fair about DM, he did not bring beto to the club, managed to get a tune out of him and then the rest of the league sussed him out. Nobody wants Grealish to leave for pastures new, but remember that leaves £50 million still available to spend. Thinking back to the mid-eighties we were all p****d off that slimeball Terry Venereables snook Gary "forty goals a season" Lineker off too Spain but we were champions the next season!Talking about GL, I was mightily impressed by Laurie McNemeny firmly putting a BBC World Cup Host in his place at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico. The no-mark Poogatch(?) was fawning over Venereables sucking up and discussing a transfer to Barca, to which he was more than willing to gob off!LM tore into both of them about discussing the future of a CONTRACTED player. LM has standards of behaviour and always wore a tie at every TV occasion! Dave Abrahams 6 Posted 06/11/2025 at 11:47:16 I’d be surprised if City want him back no matter what his manager is saying now, I doubt any other club will be prepared to pay those wages never mind the transfer fee and I wouldn’t want Everton to keep him if he doesn’t do more than he’s doing now—- all this praise he’s getting from various media operations doesn’t match the player I’ve watched for Everton up to now. Add Your Comments In order to post a comment, you need to be logged in as a registered user of the site. » Log in now Or Sign up as a ToffeeWeb Member — it's free, takes just a few minutes and will allow you to post your comments on articles and Talking Points submissions across the site. How to get rid of these ads and support TW © ToffeeWeb